Specifically, WS-Context defines a framework supporting coordinated and transactional compositions for multiple Web services applications, OASIS said on Wednesday. WS-Context ensures that multiple Web services deployed in a variety of execution environments behave as if they are being deployed in a single, consistent environment, according to OASIS.
"For example, an organization's SOA may require security information, conversational session information, database and file handles and process IDs, among other services, to be shared across multiple execution environments built on different platforms. WS-Context ensures that the Java, .Net, and other Web services in the enterprise all behave similarly and as expected at runtime," said Martin Chapman, co-chair of the OASIS Web Services Composite Application Framework Technical Committee and an Oracle official, in a statement released by OASIS.
